Improvement in cotton-seed planters



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A. MCDONALD.

Cotton Seed Pianter.

Patented June 15, 1858.

No. 20,572. I

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. Cotton Seed Planter.

No 20,572. Patented June 15, 1858.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. MCDONALD, OF SALEM, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT lN COTTON-SEED PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 20,572, dated June 15, 1858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ARNOLD MoDONALD,of-

Salem, in the county of Tippah and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Machine for Planting Corn and Cotton-Seed,

a-nd styled McDonalds Cotton Seed and (Jorn Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view; Fig.2, a lon gitudinal elevation, and Fig. 3 a transverse section. y

In Fig. 1, g g g g are barrow-teeth for clearing the ridge of trash and clods. F is a colter for opening drill, and E is the hopper.

In Fig. 3, T is a shaft, to which is attached the grooved seed distributing wheel D and stirrers b b b b. i i are grooves in the seeddistributing wheel D. 00 a; is an opening in the bottom of the hopper E, through which the grooves 2' t of the seed-distributing wheel D pass and deposit the seed regularly in the drill. A is a roller for covering the seed.

In Fig. 1, B is a cog-wheel on the roller-axle, and O a cog-wheel on shaft T.

When the machine is in motion the roller A, turning on the ground, gives motion to the cogwheel B on its axle, which, turning into the cog-wheel (J, gives motion to the shaft '1 and its grooved seed-distributing wheel D and and stirrers b b b b. The stirrers b b b I) keep the seed in constant agitation and cause them to till the grooves i i in the seed-distributing wheel D, which, in passing through the openingww in the bottom of hopper E, deposits them in the drill, as shown in Fig. 3. The extra wheel H with four holes is for planting corn. It is to be attached to a shaft in the same manner that the seed-distributing wheel D is attached to the shaft T.

To plant corn it will only be necessary to remove the shaft T,withits distributing-wheel D and stirrers b b b b, and substitute a shaft with the wheel H attached in its stead, which is operated by means of the cog-wheels B and (J, as already shown for planting cotton.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of shalt T, its grooved seeddistributing wheel I), and stirrers b b I) b with hopper E, the whole being constructed, arranged, and operating in the manner and for the purpose herein described.

A. MCDONALD.

Attesti WILL AYRES. A. M. AYRES. 

